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Columbus Sets Sail, Hiroshima & Anne Frank Arrested | Aug 3–7
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Five days in history spanning five centuries: Columbus leaves Spain, Jesse Owens stuns Berlin, Anne Frank is arrested, the atomic bomb falls on Hiroshima, and Bertha Benz takes the world's first long road trip. This week in history has never been busier.
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On September twenty-first, eleven seventy, in Dublin, Ireland, Anglo-Norman forces swept into the Kingdom of Dublin and seized control, dealing a decisive blow to Gaelic rule on the island. It was a military conquest with consequences that would echo for centuries, planting the roots of English involvement in Irish affairs.
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